From patchwork Fri Jun 11 14:01:53 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luciano Coelho X-Patchwork-Id: 55327 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2190B7D5B for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:02:41 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760355Ab0FKOCc (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:02:32 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:43319 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756436Ab0FKOCa (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:02:30 -0400 Received: from esebh105.NOE.Nokia.com (esebh105.ntc.nokia.com [172.21.138.211]) by mgw-mx06.nokia.com (Switch-3.3.3/Switch-3.3.3) with ESMTP id o5BE23iV016624; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:02:15 +0300 Received: from esebh102.NOE.Nokia.com ([172.21.138.183]) by esebh105.NOE.Nokia.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:02:00 +0300 Received: from mgw-da01.ext.nokia.com ([147.243.128.24]) by esebh102.NOE.Nokia.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:01:59 +0300 Received: from localhost.localdomain (chilepepper.research.nokia.com [172.21.50.167]) by mgw-da01.ext.nokia.com (Switch-3.3.3/Switch-3.3.3) with ESMTP id o5BE1sUn029849; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:01:55 +0300 From: Luciano Coelho To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt , Patrick McHardy , Timo Teras Subject: [PATCH v4] netfilter: Xtables: idletimer target implementation Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:01:53 +0300 Message-Id: <1276264913-429-1-git-send-email-luciano.coelho@nokia.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.3.3 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jun 2010 14:01:59.0613 (UTC) FILETIME=[A8F8EED0:01CB096E] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org This patch implements an idletimer Xtables target that can be used to identify when interfaces have been idle for a certain period of time. Timers are identified by labels and are created when a rule is set with a new label. The rules also take a timeout value (in seconds) as an option. If more than one rule uses the same timer label, the timer will be restarted whenever any of the rules get a hit. One entry for each timer is created in sysfs. This attribute contains the timer remaining for the timer to expire. The attributes are located under the xt_idletimer class: /sys/class/xt_idletimer/timers/